Name: Gooseberry Ice
Ingredients: 1 quart scalded gooseberries; juice of 4 cooked apples; 1 quart sugar; ½ tablespoon shredded citron; 1 teaspoon green coloring

Why it works: Apple and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Gooseberry Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

Strain the gooseberries and apple juice into a bowl with the sugar.
Add the shredded citron and green coloring until you achieve a definite green color.

Freeze and serve

Freeze the mixture until solid.
Serve in cut glass sherbet cups.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Apple + sugartop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together16,478 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Apple and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 16,478 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Gooseberries: Provide the tart base flavor and most of the body of the ice.
Apple juice: Adds acidity and extra body from the cooked apples.
Sugar: Adds sweetness and softens ice crystals by lowering the freezing point.
Shredded citron: Adds a candied citrus flavor and aroma.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.